Clown in a Cornfield:123movies

Clown in a Cornfield:123movies

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The modern slasher film "Clown in a Cornfield" tries to change viewers' expectations by keeping them guessing about what's really going on in this small town that looks like it's being attacked by a murderous clown. Eli Craig's film has an energy that reminds me of "It" and "Scream." It's clever and thrilling in bloody spurts, but it never quite reaches its full potential. Like the kids at its core who use horror imagery for likes, it’s ultimately a bit shallower than it should have been.  Not unlike actual clowns, it’s kinda creepy and kinda funny, but often not enough of either.  Still, genre fans should be happy enough with some of the quality kills from the “Tucker and Dale vs.  Evil” director.  For a movie like this, that can sometimes be the most important thing. Everyone, after all, adores a clown. Working with co-writer Carter Blanchard, Craig adapts the novel of the same name by Adam Cesare, a tale that will echo Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving” in its mingling of a town’s dark history with the young people trying to write their own futures.  “Ginny & Georgia” star Katie Douglas makes an effective scream queen as the Sidney Prescott of this tale, Quinn Maybrook, who has moved from Philadelphia to the factory town of Kettle Springs, Missouri.  When the factory closed, this area experienced the same economic decline as many other cities in this country. The Baypen Corn Syrup Factory, which closed and then burned in an act of arson, was blamed on town bad boy Cole Hill (Carson MacCormac) and his friends, including Matt (Alexandre Martin Deakin), Tucker (Ayo Solanke), Trudy (Daina Leitold), and Janet (Cassandra Potenza). In this instance, it is not coal or automobiles but something sweeter: One small change is that the group of kids who appear in the majority of slasher films are viewed as enemies by everyone in town. Cole and his friends have distorted the image of Baypen's figurehead, a smiling clown named Frendo, by making viral videos in which the cheery clown turns violent. This hasn't helped Cole's claims of innocence. After an encounter with a teacher who is clearly targeting these teens ends up pulling Quinn into the same net, she starts a flirtation with Cole that her doctor dad (Aaron Abrams) considers dangerous, in part because of what Sheriff Dunne (Will Sasso) says about this group of clown-loving outsiders.  Things get weird and bloody as Cole's wealthy father, played by Kevin Durand, roams the set. Has Frendo actually come to life as a Pennywise-esque villain?  Or is there another issue at hand? “Clown in a Cornfield” builds to an impressive sequence when a teen party “goes Shudder” with increasingly insane deaths.  The energy in these sequences and the other death scenes in “Clown” are just about enough.  However, I was still hoping the thrills would build to something a bit more satisfying than the blunt exposition dump that literally follows someone asking what is happening in the final act here.  I apologize for being vague, but I found Craig's film to be much more interesting when it was just allowed to be chaotic rather than when it was explaining the chaos. It is difficult to write about some of the underdeveloped themes of "Cornfield" without giving away any of the plot. Naturally, it is not a spoiler to say that Cole, Quinn, and their friends are misunderstood by the traditional community around them. That’s a common horror theme, especially the ones that influenced this project: The kids will have to be alright on their own because the generation before them sold them out, are useless, or both.  Craig smartly casts his film with charming young performers, especially the excellent Douglas.  Then, he counters them against a supporting cast of obnoxious, worthless adults (other than Quinn’s father, effectively played by Abrams).  Even though some parts of "Clown in a Cornfield" don't work, it's almost forgiveable for the bloody makeup and where the movie ends: The real clowns are the people who want to keep the next generation from growing up.

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